One of a Muslim’s greatest hope and reward of spiritual accomplishment is to see the Prophet’s (AS) face in their best dreams, when they have arrived at a station of purity.
This message is to those with a heart.
Don’t rob of us of this hope and emotion by forcing your politics on our spiritual experiences.
Don’t shatter and intrude upon our dreams with your violent messages.
To those without a heart, I leave you to your fate.
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LOOKING FOR YOUR FACE
From the beginning of my life
I have been looking for your face
but today I have seen it
Today I have seen
the charm, the beauty,
the unfathomable grace
of the face
that I was looking for
Today I have found you
and those who laughed
and scorned me yesterday
are sorry that they were not looking
as I did
I am bewildered by the magnificence
of your beauty
and wish to see you
with a hundred eyes
My heart has burned with passion
and has searched forever
for this wondrous beauty
that I now behold
I am ashamed
to call this love human
and afraid of God
to call it divine
Your fragrant breath
like the morning breeze
has come to the stillness of the garden
You have breathed new life into me
I have become your sunshine
and also your shadow
My soul is screaming in ecstasy
Every fiber of my being
is in love with you
Your efflugence
has lit a fire in my heart
for me
the earth and sky
My arrow of love
has arrived at the target
I am in the house of mercy
and my heart
is a place of prayer
Maulana Rumi (ks)
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If the face of Muhammad is reflected on a wall, the heart of the wall will become alive.
The wall, through his blessed reflection, will have such great happiness that even the wall will be rescued from hypocrisy.
It was a shame for the wall to have two faces while the pious and the pure had only one.
Maulana Rumi (ks)
Seyh Abdul Kerim Effendi is asked about Islam and ruling systems.
Sohbet – Part 2 – Sheykh Abdul Kerim al-Kibrisi – 23rd Jumada Al-Awwal – 5/7/2010 from Yursil on Vimeo.
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O youth: so what have you gained from the acquisition of the science of dogmatic theology and from disputation and medicine and “diwans” and poetry and astronomy and prosody and syntax and morphology except squandering life?
By the splendor of the Possessor of splendor, assuredly I saw in the gospel of ‘Isa, upon our Prophet
and upon him be peace, (that) he said:
“From the moment in which the dead is placed on the bier until he is placed on the edge of the
tomb Allah the Exalted in His Majesty will ask him forty questions; the first is, He will say: ‘O my servant, you have purified (yourself in) the sight of mankind for years and not for one hour have you purified (yourself in) my sight, while every day I look in your heart; so I say, for what you do for another, while you are encompassed by my good gifts, are you not deaf, unheeding?
[ref: Scherer, George (1930). Al-Ghazali's Ayyuha 'l-Walad, 58]
Picture of Imam Ghazali’s Tomb
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O youth, the advice is easy, the difficulty is accepting it, since it is bitter in the taste of the follower of passionate desire, because prohibited things are cherished in their hearts; especially whoever is seeking formal knowledge, and is busying himself about excellence of science and the improvement of the soul and jurisprudence and the praises of the present world, for he accounts that knowledge alone is a means in which will be his safety and his salvation, and that he can get along without work; and this is the belief of the philosophers.
Praise the Great God! he does not know this much, that when he acquires knowledge, if he does not work according to it, the indictment against him is certain. As the Apostle of Allah, Allah bless him and give him peace, said “The person most severely punished in the day of resurrection is the learned one whom Allah the Exalted does not benefit by reason of his knowledge.” It is told that Junayd, the mercy of Allah (upon him), appeared in a dream after his death, and it was said to him, “What is the news, O Abu Qasim?”
He replied, “Perished are the explanations and vanished are the allusions, nothing benefited us except the prostrations which we made in the middle of the night.”
[ref: Scherer, George (1930). Al-Ghazali's Ayyuha 'l-Walad, 54]
Portrait as produced on ghazali.org of Imam Ghazali (R) in his later years, by an Iraqi Artist.
Referenced Quotes:
Abu Hurairah savs, “The second (person to receive sentence on the day of
the resurrection); a man who shall have obtained knowledge and instructed
others and read the Koran, He will be brought into the presence of God,
and will be given to understand the benefits he had received, which he will
be sensible of and confess : and God will say, ‘What didst thou do in
gratitude therefor?’ He will reply, ‘I learned knowledge and taught others,
and I read the Koran to please thee.’ Then God will say, ‘Thou liest, but
thou studiest that people might call thee learned, and thou didst read the
Koran for the name of the thing.’ Then God will order him to be dragged
upon his face, and precipitated into hell.” Quoted in Mishkat, v. i, p. 56.
Cabbin Malik is quoted also as follows: “The Prophet said, ‘he who desires
knowledge in order to be honored in the world or to dispute with the
ignorant, and to attract the notice of mankind, God will throw him into hell
fire.”’ Mishkat, v. i, p. 60.
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